Video footage of Men's Qualifier!

This the only footage I’ve found from the Men’s Qualifying Meet this past weekend, but there’s some good stuff in it. It’s about a 9-minute compliation of many highlights from the meet, including some routines from the top two all-arounders, Jesse Silverstein and Danell Leyva. Thanks to Ono No Komachi, who posted the link on Gymnastics Coaching.com.

In case you don’t want to sift through the entire thing, here’s a few parts you’ll want to catch:

Leyva’s marathon high bar routine at 0:42

Leyva’s so-so floor routine at 2:42

Silverstein’s clean p-bar routine at 6:25

Leyva’s triple Yamawaki sequence at 7:00

Silverstein’s high bar + floor routines at 7:33

2010 USA Men’s Qualifier Highlights

So apparently Leyva’s routine wasn’t truly worth a 7.5, as there were some special “bonus rules” in place at this meet (as USAG often does at national competitions). Let’s look at his true start value, which is calculated below:

Takamoto full + (D) 0.4

Yamawaki (D) 0.4

CV 0.2

Laid out Kovacs (E) 0.5

Liukin (F) 0.6

Takamoto half + (D) 0.4

Laid out Tcatchev (D) 0.4

CV 0.2

Jam hop to overgrip (D) 0.4

Full turn to elgrip (C) 0.3

Endo full to mixed grip (C) 0.3

Laid out double-double (E) 0.5

Total difficulty points 4.6

Element Groups 2.5

Total D-Score 7.1

I’m assuming he must have gotten 0.4 in bonus from this competition, which brought it up to a 7.5. Anyone calculate anything different for this routine? This is still without a doubt one of the most difficult routines in the world, and if he gets rid of a couple of those deductions (giants after a couple of the release skills, the mistake on the jam hop that I’m sure wasn’t supposed to go to overgrip, and the dismount), he could be looking at a world medal for sure